The regional office of Technical Assistance to the New Partners Initiative is located in Kampala, Uganda and from there support is provided to grant recipient organisations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Our role is to strengthen the systems and capacity of these community organisations to contribute to the national HIV response in their respective countries.
Support is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, beginning in 2008 and will continue to 2012 and includes:
Organisational Systems: project design and planning, budget management, community advocacy and engagement, human resource development, supervision of implementing partners, collaboration with government, governance and financial systems and reporting;
Technical Service Systems: evidence based planning of interventions, setting and monitoring quality standards and national guidelines for service delivery, promoting sharing of lessons and identifying comparative skills to deliver services to the community as part of a comprehensive HIV and health package;
Collaboration and Networks: ensuring community engagement and working closely with government and affected populations, leadership strengthening and supporting community organisations to be sustainable partners for health service delivery.
The organisations include: community clinics offering comprehensive HIV services integrated as part of primary health care; faith based networks promoting information and awareness to reduce risk behaviours (eg abstinence, delaying sexual debut, couple faithfulness); networks of OVC care providers and community organisations contributing to policy dialogue and providing services for key affected populations and most at risk populations including people with disability, commercial sex workers, college students and truck drivers.
The strengthening of the capacity and systems of the community organisations funded to deliver HIV services is provided through workshops, examples of relevant practices that can be adapted to the specific situations and the provision of short term technical assistance by the Kampala-based team and by experienced trainers located in the implementation countries.
Request for Statement of Capabilities from Individuals for Continued Support to Community Organisations
The support to the organisations delivering HIV services in the listed countries is ongoing and to increase the opportunities for short term technical assistance (STTA) the TA-NPI regional office would like to receive short statements of capability. These statements should refer to one or more of the three areas of support described in this notice.
Individuals who currently or have recently worked with technical support organisations, the regional technical support facility entities or similar institutional capacity building organisations are particularly encouraged to apply. As well as organisational development and financial reporting the HIV technical areas include youth and adult prevention, counselling and testing approaches and programmes of care and support including OVC care. Please indicate in the statement the countries in which the work has been delivered and your language skills relevant to work in the countries listed.
The statement must not exceed 6 pages/ sides of A4 and should describe:
- The size and character of organisations with whom you have worked;
- The aspect of their internal systems or services that you assisted;
- Details of a person in that organisation whom we can contact for comments;
- Your availability for assignments of 2-6 week duration and availability/ interest in longer assignments in rural Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda or Mozambique.
- Your professional qualifications are relevant, however practical field experience with successful implementation is a key criteria.
We will acknowledge receipt of statements when emailed to stta@ta-npi.org. The individuals who demonstrate experience relevant to the needs of our partner organisations will be contacted for details of your fee expectations.
Further information on the work of TA-NPI and of John Snow, Inc and Initiatives Inc (the implementing contractors) is available at http://tanpi.jsi.com. We request that statements of capability are submitted by 18th September 2010. Previous applications and submissions to TA-NPI will be included in the review and so those consultants need not re-apply.You can also visit www.kenyanvacancies.com for more jobs
